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Federal lawsuit claims insurer deliberately stalling in Libby asbestos cases

by Darrell Ehrlick Daily Montanan
| January 24, 2023 7:00 AM

Just weeks after a Cascade County judge agreed with a jury that the insurance company that represented a Libby asbestos mine should pay a former miner there $36.5 million, attorneys for that miner filed a complaint in federal court, claiming that Zurich American Insurance Company systematically stalled and dragged out court proceedings in an attempt to force him into settling the lawsuit before other asbestos cases are tried....

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